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To: Natural Law
I'm not so sure abiogenesis per se has been ruled out.

Augustine dealt with abiogenesis in one of his works (on the Literal Interpretation of Genesis maybe?), on the question of when flies & maggots were created.

Since they were, by the science of the day, considered to be spontaneously generated by rotting meat, he argued that they may well not have been created actually during the first six days but only created potentially. So during Creation, God created the properties in meat such that when it would rot, maggots would spontaneously form in it.

Granted the faulty scientific premise, his argument is still important theologically.

14 posted on 05/09/2011 10:21:37 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud
I like Augustine's point.

I illustrate it this way....

Right now stars are forming off in the universe via gravity and nuclear fusion. To me these stars are just as much “Created by God” as any others.

I was created by God “from dust” - yet I was also created via cellular processes involving DNA. The fact that we understand the physical processes doesn't make me any less “created by God”.

21 posted on 05/09/2011 10:37:51 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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